Village Cross at Junction with Speke Road is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Cross.
Village Cross at Junction with Speke Road
- WRENN ID
- shifting-corner-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Garston MP: Maria Eagle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Cross
- Address
- Village Cross at Junction with Speke Road, Woolton Street
- OS grid reference
- SJ 425 866
- Coordinates
- 53.37382, -2.86555
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The village cross at the junction with Speke Road is a Grade II listed structure, with its date of origin uncertain but restored in 1913. It features a stone shaft set on three steps, topped with a restored cross. There is a bronze board on the front of the cross that bears the inscription "WOOLTON/VILLE CROSS/CRUX POTESTAS/DEI", while the rear has the inscription "HANC CRUCEM ANTIQUAM/TEMPORIS CURSU DILAPIDATAM/ARTHURIS. S. MATHER/RESTAURAVIT MCM XIII". Additionally, there are six granite bollards surrounding the cross. This structure is part of a complete street group located on what was once the main village street.
Local climate
Village Cross at Junction with Speke Road sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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